Allow for mongomock:// URI

AUTHORS

@@ -35,3 +35,4 @@ that much better:
 * Denny Huang - https://github.com/denny0223
 * Stefan Wojcik - https://github.com/wojcikstefan
 * John Cass - https://github.com/jcass77
+* Aly Sivji - https://github.com/alysivji

flask_mongoengine/connection.py

@@ -24,7 +24,15 @@ def _sanitize_settings(settings):
 
     # Handle uri style connections
     if "://" in resolved_settings.get('host', ''):
-        uri_dict = uri_parser.parse_uri(resolved_settings['host'])
+        # this section pulls the database name from the URI
+        # PyMongo requires URI to start with mongodb:// to parse
+        # this workaround allows mongomock to work
+        uri_to_check = resolved_settings['host']
+
+        if uri_to_check.startswith('mongomock://'):
+            uri_to_check = uri_to_check.replace('mongomock://', 'mongodb://')
+
+        uri_dict = uri_parser.parse_uri(uri_to_check)
         resolved_settings['db'] = uri_dict['database']
 
     # Add a default name param or use the "db" key if exists

tests/test_connection.py

@@ -51,6 +51,14 @@ def test_host_as_uri_string(self):
         self.app.config['MONGODB_HOST'] = 'mongodb://localhost:27017/flask_mongoengine_test_db'
         self._do_persist(db)
 
+    def test_mongomock_host_as_uri_string(self):
+        """Make sure we can connect to the mongomock object if we specify
+        the host as a mongomock URI.
+        """
+        db = MongoEngine()
+        self.app.config['MONGODB_HOST'] = 'mongomock://localhost:27017/flask_mongoengine_test_db'
+        self._do_persist(db)
+
     def test_host_as_list(self):
         """Make sure MONGODB_HOST can be a list hosts."""
         db = MongoEngine()